Murnane is widely recognised as a writer of unparalleled skill and originality. His work has been published in more than twenty countries and has received numerous prizes in Australia.
Gerald Murnane is a recipient of an Emeritus Fellowship from the Australia Council, the Patrick White Literary Award in 1999, the Melbourne Prize for Literature (2009), the Adelaide Festival Literature Award for Innovation and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Border Districts received the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the ALS Gold Medal and longlisted for the 2018 Voss Literary Prize. A Season on Earth was longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Award.
Gerald Murnane was born in Melbourne in 1939. He has been a primary-school teacher, an editor and a university lecturer. His debut novel, Tamarisk Row (1974), was followed by ten other works of fiction, including The Plains (1982) and most recently Border Districts (2017). His most recently released fiction is A Season on Earth (2019), his second novel finally published in its complete form.
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